"Is It Safe"


  • Photographer
    Aliza Augustine
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2009
  • Technical Info
    Digital Photographs

Is It Safe?” utilizes photographs of family members who survived or were killed during the Holocaust as narrative backdrops. I use dollhouse size––1-inch to 1-foot scale–– dolls in my art practice to retell visual stories, echoing the way that I was told tales of war and escape as a child on my grandfather’s knee. Fascinated since childhood by dollhouses, I was particularly influenced by English children’s book illustrations like Rumer Godden’s The Dolls House. They provided me with a refuge from a noisy and disruptive household, and became an early influence for how I now retell and re-narritivize my life.

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